For Black Manta, who has escaped from dangerous situations countless times and escaped death again and again, this time being trapped may not be the most dangerous one.
But it must have been the most despairing time for him.
Every day in Arkham made him suffer, and he did resist, but failed resistance was always more unacceptable than forced compromise.
There was a moment when Black Bat Ben thought that he would never be able to escape from that terrible place.
He will always get up at six o'clock in the morning, always wear the same clothes as everyone else, always eat those unpleasant vegetables and cabbage, always be locked in that small room, looking at the corner of the sky outside, in loneliness and regret Missing my past.
But now, at this moment, he was running in the forest, breathing the free air, shouting to his heart's content, and venting his emotions at will.
Black Bat Ben knew that all of this was thanks to that mysterious man.
That... strange guy.
Is Black Manta a good person?
of course not.
Therefore, don't expect him to have grateful thoughts and keep his promises.
Now that he has escaped from Arkham, Black Manta is already thinking about how to escape from this guy... Maybe killing him is a good idea.
However, Black Manta is not an impulsive person. He knows that his abilities have boundaries and limitations.
Without the specially-made clothes, he could at best be regarded as a bold and normal person pretending to be a normal person.
And what he has to face is a scary guy who goes to and from Arkham like visiting a supermarket.
No rush...no rush...huh?
As he ran, Black Bat Ben suddenly realized that he had not seen the person running in front of him for a long time.
Where did that guy go? !
Black Bat Ben slowly slowed down and stood in the dark forest.
At this time, it had been a long time since Christmas. Even counting from the time Black Manta was captured in Arkham, it had been nearly twenty days.
The weather is no longer so cold, and trees and other life are coming to life.
The sound could always be heard in his ears. Black Bat Ben stood there quietly, not sure what sound he heard.
Maybe it's just the leaves spreading?
Perhaps, that guy is hiding somewhere, using the muzzle of his gun to push aside the blocking branches...
"gentlemen……"
Gently, Black Bat Ben shouted.
In the forest, there was still no response.
"gentlemen?"
This time, his voice was much louder.
Still didn't react as quickly as I did.
Quietly walking to a big tree, Black Bat Ben leaned his back against the big tree. He first lowered his head and looked around the roots of the tree, then raised his head and looked hard at the top of his head.
he's not here.
"gentlemen!"
The voice carried far away in the dark night, but he still didn't get a response.
Slowly squatting down, Black Bat Ben observed the surroundings carefully, his mind racing rapidly.
Is he still here? Why? Want to kill me?
No, no, given that guy's status in Arkham, it's obviously more reasonable to do it in Arkham.
Did he escape? Why, what's the danger here? Did he bring me here on purpose?
No, the fundamental problem is still untenable: he can easily deal with me, in any form, and there is no need to take me out of Arkham.
so……
"He really just, casually... like taking away a straight twig, took me away when he was escaping?"
Probably, this is the only possibility.
Black Bat Ben's heart suddenly relaxed and he was no longer so nervous.
He knew that during his years of wandering in the world, he had hardly made any friends, but instead made a lot of enemies.
It's not like someone is asking for help from others outside. Most likely, it's the mysterious man with an abnormal mind and casual behavior who does it easily.
"Oh, then don't blame me for not keeping my promise!"
Good people have various constraints and limitations, so they usually have many different weaknesses.
But bad guys generally don't have such a problem. They are ruthless, have strong execution ability, have clear goals and can always stick to them.
Bad people, of course, have no moral constraints.
Black Manta is such a person.
So, now that he has decided, he will definitely do it.
Standing up and leaving all his promises and previous requests behind him, Black Manta used the astrology knowledge he had learned from his fishing father to quickly determine his direction and started running madly forward.
Half an hour later, after bypassing a bush that was not very dense, Black Bat Ben stood on a small slope and finally saw the road.
"Hahahaha! I really escaped!"
Breathing violently and running continuously through the forest in the middle of the night with such visibility, Black Bat Ben's physical strength was almost exhausted.
But he knew he couldn't stop, he had to escape to a safe place as soon as possible.
It was definitely impossible to rely on his own two legs, so he decided to rob an unlucky passerby who was driving.
After searching for a long time on the hillside, Black Manta found a dead tree of about the same size. He dragged it to the side of the road with great difficulty, and used the railing as a fulcrum to place the tree across the road.
This tree may not be very thick or strong, but Black Manta believes that no driver will hit it directly.
By the time……
"Hey hey hey!"
It was already one or two o'clock in the morning, and there were no cars passing by on this road. Fortunately, Black Bat Ben did not find the thing he least wanted to see, and the police car that came to arrest him did not find it.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Black Bat Ben finally saw a car, which drove towards him somewhat... crookedly.
You are the one!
Seeing the right moment, when the opponent was about to approach, Black Bat Ben pressed hard and the end of the branch was lifted up.
Now, just wait for the other party to slow down, and then...
Bah!
Black Manta looked at the road in surprise. Suddenly, the car hit a tree branch.
What surprised him even more was...
The car was actually torn apart by the small branch he lifted up! !
tear! Yes, it is indeed shredded.
"WTF..."
Muttering unconsciously, Black Manta watched the car crash into the car on the side of the road, and a person climbed out.
No time to think more!
Black Bat Ben supported the guardrail and jumped over, quickly ran to the person's side, raised his hand to hide it, and hit the other person's head.
"You...this is how you repay me."
The hands were hovering stiffly in the air, and Black Bat Ben's whole body was also stiffly maintaining the movement of exerting force.
In front of him, lying on the ground, the man climbing out of the car was the big boss who mysteriously disappeared.
How...he...I...
"You...how did you..."
"I?"
Holding his chin with one hand and lying on his side on the cold road, the mysterious man raised his head with a smile on his face and a bloody head.
"Haha, I...fuck! My head was damaged!"
The mysterious man casually took out a roll of bandages from somewhere, lowered his head while cursing, and wrapped it around his head.
Black Bat Ben looked at the other party, and his head stopped for a moment. He couldn't understand what the situation was now.
However, the cold and hard touch in his hand told him that he was still holding a stone in his hand.
At this time, that guy was sitting on the ground with his back to him...
Clenching the stone in his hand harder, Black Bat Ben knew that he was facing a choice at this time.
Grit your teeth and be cruel! Black Bat Ben threw away the stone in his hand.
This guy...he can't feel it for sure, he can't see through it.
He didn't know if the other party was deliberately tempting him to take action.
Although he couldn't understand why the other party did this, Black Bat Ben believed that it was definitely not a coincidence that the mysterious man appeared here.
…
Squatting down to help the other person up, Black Bat Ben kept rehearsing the conversation in his mind. At this time, he needs to tell a lie, needs to play dumb, and needs a reason to make himself a non-threatening person.
"Sir, I suddenly can't find you. Why did you suddenly disappear just now?"
"ah……"
The mysterious man opened the mouth that he had accidentally wrapped with a bandage, and scratched his head through the bandage: "I lost my stuff, so I went back to Arkham to get it."
"D-Things...forgot...I'm sorry, what did you say?!"
The thoughts in his mind were instantly disrupted. Black Bat Ben felt that he had never been so clumsy in his life and could not even say a complete sentence.
"I said I forgot something..."
The mysterious man looked at Black Bat Ben faintly, then opened his eyes, which were also covered with bandages, and looked at him again: "It's a very important thing."
With his mind trembling, this tension brought Black Manta's thoughts back to his brain. He felt as if he knew why the boss wanted to stay in Arkham, where he could come and go freely, and why he did what he did.
So, forcefully cheering up, Black Bat Ben lowered his voice unconsciously, and carefully asked tentatively: "Yes, what is it?"
The other party didn't hide anything at all and gave him the answer on the spot.
"bandage."
"…………ah?"
"this."
The mysterious boss pointed to his head, which was completely covered in white: "Bandage. Hey! Fortunately, I went back to get it, otherwise I wouldn't have been hit like this just now...
Eh? It was you who poked the branch and caused me to crash! "
His thoughts were scattered again, and before he could fully return to his mind, Black Bat was suddenly grabbed by the collar.
"You did it on purpose! You wanted to kill me!"
"I... Boss, I beg you, can you... Oh, I'm not, let me tell you the truth, I just want to run away, find a random person, hijack his car and leave here, that's all! "
"Oh~"
He let go of his hand and the mysterious man, whose expression was invisible, nodded: "Then you're right. We have to escape quickly. When I went back just now, I saw that they seemed to have discovered that we two had escaped."
you! exist! explain! Varied! What!
Black Bat Ben's whole body is in bad shape, and you actually used the word "discovery"!
You are so big...
"call……"
"What's wrong with you? Why did you sit down suddenly?"
"I'm fine, I'm just...a little tired, I have a headache."
"Then don't feel any pain."
"I'm good!"
Gritting his teeth and forcing himself to stand up, Black Bat Ben was not lying. He really felt as if his head was going to explode.
"Sir, we should leave."
"Ah! Yes! It's too late, get in the car!"
Black Manta followed the boss to the car and saw the branch still stuck in the car, so he stepped forward to lift the branch and wanted to pull it out.
Stab~
With just that much force, the part of the branch that poked into the car actually opened a larger hole in the car.
"How is this possible! I... huh?"
Weakly putting down the tree in his hand, Black Bat Ben walked stiffly to the car, looked at the outer shell of the car swinging in the wind, tentatively touched it with trembling hands.
"This is……"
"Paper."
Behind him, the mysterious man answered him.
"This is a car I drew. How about it! You're pretty good at it, right? Just tell me if this car is the same as the real one! You can't tell! You can't tell at all!"
"Then...it, how it is...I saw you driving the car from over there..."
"Ah~ you said this. Look."
Walking forward, he walked around Black Bat Ben and came to the car door. The mysterious man opened the car door with one hand and got out of the way, allowing Black Bat Ben behind him to see the inside of the car.
Black Bat Ben couldn't believe his eyes.
Inside, is a bicycle.
"It's impossible... I must be blind... This is impossible..."
Snapped!
A big, solid mouth brought Black Manta back to reality.
When his vision solidified again and he regained focus, Black Bat Ben saw that at some point, the mysterious man was already sitting in the car.
The car didn't collapse!
The car lights are still on!
this……
"No time to explain! Get in the car!"
Drowsily, Black Bat Ben also got into the car and sat... on the bicycle seat.
"Look what I'm doing! Kick! Batman will come to catch you soon! Quick, run!"
Bang!
The car door closed, the car lights flashed twice, then started slowly and drove into the distance.
…………
early morning.
A strange car slowly appeared on the road, but instead of continuing towards the gas station, it drove towards the convenience store on the roadside.
The back door opened, and a man with extremely serious injuries, his whole head wrapped in bandages and gauze, stepped out of the car, patted the window gently, said something to the driver's seat, and opened the door.
"Hurry up, Batman will catch up in a moment!"
The bandaged man walked quickly to the convenience store. In the car behind him, in the driver's seat, a man with trembling legs, pale face, and trembling lips slowly stepped out.
Black Bat Ben felt miserable.
That night, he first waited hard for his escape partner who might be deceived, and then was shocked by the other party's behavior. After successfully escaping, he ran all the way to the side of the road to stop the car, and then went through a period of cognitive confusion. The process of being re-established and constantly being destroyed, and after that... I just kept riding.
Because Batman really showed up and he really chased after him.
Six hours, six hours!
Black Manta rides a bicycle and races against the Batmobile!
That abominable Batman seems to be able to foresee the future. Every time Black Manta escapes by taking advantage of the terrain, he always catches up quickly.
In this night's escape, Black Bat Ben endured too much.
He feels...it doesn't matter now.
Human beings only have one lifetime, whether in the sea or in a basin, why not live it~
"Go, go, go!"
That scary guy is done shopping!
Black Bat Ben was so frightened that he couldn't help but be clever.
"Sir... I... I don't want to run away, really. I, I, I really understand what you said now, really! I think Arkham is pretty good! I like Arkham, really! I would love to stay in Arkham, I will love it forever!
I want to go back to Arkham, sir, please... wuwuwu..."
"Oh, you~"
The bandaged mysterious man patted his head easily, and Black Bat Ben lowered his head unconsciously.
He felt the other party patting his shoulder, approaching him gently, and whispered in his ear: "Let me ask you a question. If you answer it correctly, you can take control of your own destiny again."
Black Bat Ben raised his head, looked at the other person, watched his mouth slowly open and close, and slowly said the question.
"Now...is it still the best day?"
"!"
In an instant, a chill ran through my body.
Black Bat Ben stood frozen in place.
(End of chapter)
